Well, finally got home from DC, be prepared for a bit of a rant. What a trip! – first of all the conference I am going to gets cancelled – an hour after I land in Dulles. Next, we get hit by Hurricane Isabel. Finally on the way home to Dublin via London (no direct flights) we have to make an emergency landing in – wait for it – Dublin because someone on the plane had a “Cerebral Event”. Not a good thing to happen but you might think that on the bright side we’d get to finish our trip a little early. Unfortunately not. After sitting in Dublin on the plane for about 2 hours we were not allowed to leave the plane – the main excuse was to do with our baggage, apparently they could not let it fly without us.

Instead we had to fly to Heathrow where we then missed our connecting flight to Dublin – this also happened to be the last flight to Dublin. So we got to London and stayed in a hotel overnight. The flight in the morning was (of course) delayed by about an hour but at that stage I was expecting it.

When we get to Dublin, Jen’s bag arrives ont he baggage belt but mine is nowhere to be seen. After going to baggage enquiries I find that despite the airline’s excuses the previous day, my bag had flown to Dublin on an earlier flight without me. So essentially the excuses the previous day were BS that suited them at the time.

In the end it wasn’t BA’s fault that there was a medical emergency on board but I think it wouldn’t have been beyond them to let us off in Dublin. What really annoys me is that the whole reason I opted for the flight was so I wouldn’t have to take the Monday off work – in the end I had to take it off, I was too damn tired and pissed off to go into work. Plus I wouldn’t have made it in until after 2 – not really worth it at that stage. So, an interesting and frustrating trip – I’ll be posting the pictures on Comerford.cc soon, probably tomorrow, along with the pics from Spain. Now if this query would just finish so I could go home………

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